In early 2023, a hacker penetrated OpenAI's internal messaging systems and stole information about the design of AI technology. The NYT writes about this with reference to sources.
According to the newspaper, the attacker stole the correspondence of employees, but did not gain access to the systems where the company places and develops its artificial intelligence.
Employees learned about the incident at a general meeting in April 2023, according to the NYT. The members of the Board of Directors were also informed. At the same time, the journalists stressed that the management did not publicly report the hack to the FBI or anyone else from law enforcement agencies, since the hacker did not receive information about clients or partners.
The incident was allegedly not considered a threat to national security, as it was decided that the hacker was a private individual with no ties to a foreign government. However, according to the NYT, some employees have concerns about the company's attitude to protecting their information.
According to the media, after the leak, Leopold Aschenbrenner from the Superalignment team notified the board of directors that there were insufficient measures to prevent the theft of internal information by the Chinese government and other states.
https://forklog.com/news/ai/iz-openai-ushel-eshhe-odin-top-menedzher-prichina-prenebrezhenie-bezopasnostyuAschenbrenner was fired in the spring of 2024 for leaking corporate data. He called the decision politically motivated and described the startup's approach to security as "not reliable enough to protect against theft of key secrets if foreign actors infiltrate the company."
"We appreciate the concerns that Leopold expressed while working at OpenAI, and this was not the reason for his dismissal," said Liz Bourgeois, a representative of OpenAI.
Earlier it became known that large technology companies warned about the risks associated with AI for their business.
Recall that China is six times ahead of the United States in terms of the number of patents in the field of generative artificial intelligence.